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LEPISOSTEUS OSSEUS

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Meaning:

Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teethplay

Synonyms:

billfish; gar; garfish; garpike; Lepisosteus osseus

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Lepisosteus osseus" is a kind of...):

ganoid; ganoid fish (primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering)

Holonyms ("Lepisosteus osseus" is a member of...):

genus Lepisosteus; Lepisosteus (type genus of the Lepisosteidae: freshwater gars)

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